December 2011
“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month...”
– Alexander McCall Smith (via way-up-there)
“Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?”
– Francis Chan, “Crazy Love” (via sparks-and-embers)
“You say the most important thing on the face of the earth is to know Jesus...”
– Paul Washer (via abideinhislove)
“Oh, it was you!”
– Peter Kreeft (predicting our reactions to meeting our guardian angels in heaven and realising the major role they played in our lives)
“Does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is ‘yes’? You...”
– C.S. Lewis, “Shadowlands” (via Kiley Lauren)
Bible Study and Discussion: “Here, in a sense, is... →
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“Here, in a sense, is the fundamental problem of human life: You’ve got to be perfect, you can’t be perfect. You’ve got to be just, you can’t be just. You’ve got to please God, you can’t please God.
This is why, those people who read the Sermon on the Mount, with a smile, and say how enlightened…
“As I look back on my own pilgrimage, marked by wanderings, detours, and dead...”
– Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace? (via amayafuego)
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“God made me a girl. And He did that on purpose. But He asks me to become the...”
– Leslie Ludy (via set-apartgirl)
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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are...”
– C.S. Lewis (via hisearthlylight)
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“God in eternity looked upon me foreseeing my fallenness, my pride, my sin and said, ‘I want that man in my family! I will pay for him to be in my family with my son’s life.’ That’s love folks, that is mega-off the charts love!” - John Piper
“A vague religion – all about feeling God in nature, and so on – is so...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
“In a parable he warned that those farmers who concentrate on pulling up weeds...”
– Philip Yancey What’s So Amazing About Grace? (via )
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing...”
– Paul in Romans 8:18 (ESV)
“The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made...”
– Alexander McCall Smith in The Miracle at Speedy Motors (via desvignettes)
“All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and...”
– Socrates (via totheonlymuse)
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are...”
– C.S. Lewis (via belikealion)
“Don’t bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave,...”
– C.S. Lewis (via beingalloutofideassucks)
“Why is it that I think you are quite a decent fellow? Why do I positively like...”
– Gabriel Syme, GK Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday” (via rhyme-my-name)
“Both great joy and great sorrow break your heart. I think the greatest...”
– Peter Kreeft (via importable)